One Year of (real) AI Driven Testing – What We Learned Appvance introduced the first level 4 autonomy for software testing in September 2017. By now thousands of test runs have been accomplished covering millions of test steps, all fully created by AI. No recording or scripting, just machine learning. It’s not magic…but it…

Dilbert Tackles Software QA! What does it mean when test scripts show up in a Sunday comic??? This Dilbert comic appeared nationally in October 2018: Dilbert has covered many diverse topics over the decades of comics. But test scripts??? Of course, the comic is meant to be funny. But the punch line is “I…

How Appvance Used AI to Successfully Deliver Level 4 Autonomy When Appvance began working on true testing autonomy we knew there were many directions one could take with machine learning to attack the problem. One direction would use neural nets to scan thousands of applications and build a database of how they work and are…

5 Levels of AI Testing Autonomy The driverless vehicle levels were defined by SAE (Society of Automobile Engineers) some years ago as a way of defining the actual capabilities of driverless vehicles. Today, most driverless automation is level 2 or 3 (ie Tesla), but Waymo seems to be showing level 4 or 5 capabilities…

The AI Testing Hype Machine In the past year we have seen a handful of startups get funded claiming they use AI for testing. But when testers actually got their hands on the tool, they found nothing more than a first generation scriptless recorder. Some had helpers and some a new language…but in the end,…

Testing teams have several alternatives for manually creating scripts. Most date back years, some are platform specific, some open source, with Selenium remaining the benchmark for most test engineers, notwithstanding that it has fallen way behind the curve. Appvance’s entrant is the Appvance IQ Test Designer, a modern IDE that enables ultra-high productivity when creating,…

Artificial intelligence is top of mind for executives seeking game-changing efficiency boosts, especially in software development and IT operations. In those software eating the world domains, data is plentiful — but talent and time are dear. Spanning dev and ops, software testing is as promising a target as could possibly be. It’s a billion dollar…